# Height as an attractive factor **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 7, 2008, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/height-as-an-attractive-factor/452109 "2008-06-07T06:48:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/height-as-an-attractive-factor/452109/61 "2008-06-09T23:22:39Z")
Straight female, 5’8". I prefer guys who are about my height. A little up or down doesn’t matter. (I’ve only once dated a guy who was noticably shorter than I - about 5’5" as I recall - and I found it very sexy.) A lot of it is practical - my first couple boyfriends were over six feet, and I got tired of getting up on my tip-toes and craning my neck up every time I wanted to kiss them! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/height-as-an-attractive-factor/452109/62 "2008-06-10T06:00:28Z")
Gay man, 5’10". I’m insanely attracted to skinny guys of any height, and prior to my current 20-year relationship, I was with guys of \*\*\*every \*\*\*height. But I have to admit, when I’m in one of my more “dominant” moods, there’s a special turn-on being with a guy who’s freakishly tall. I never got much out of dominating short guys, but to dominate a guy who’s 6’10" has an extra dimension of excitement for me. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/height-as-an-attractive-factor/452109/63 "2008-06-10T07:14:52Z")
[QUOTE=Essay] However, I have an irrational prejudice against tiny women. I’m suspicious of them. I have plenty of short friends my age, and I don’t hold that against them (though I do hold things over them, and they can’t do a thing about it). But those doll-like strangers, with their tiny little appendages? They’re up to something. I know it. I blame this on none of the women in my family being particularly short or, if they are short, not petite. Also, in high school I was convinced I was too tall to ever find a boyfriend (thus the 6’4" guy) and was therefore jealous of itty bitty cheerleader types. I’ve outgrown the insecurity, but the prejudice survives! [/QUOTE] I too have an irrational prejudice against tiny women- not ladies with dwarfism or an explainable medical condition, just really short skinny ones- but only if they’re teens through late twenties in age. Once a lady wouldn’t be cast as a college student even by the most lenient of casting directors, they’re “allowed” to be really tiny. If I have a friend who’s quite short and slim, I don’t mind their appearance at all, but seeing very short and thin women out and about is unjustifiably scary. /hijack I’m 5’6", female, kinda bi. I like guys to be a little taller than me. I’ve had a few crushes on guys very close to my height, but only dated in the 5’10-6’2" range. Most guys over 6’4" look out of proportion, and I don’t like that. Not everyone: Jason Momoa, for instance, is 6’4" and his head and shoulders still look perfectly reasonable. But take a random guy of my university’s basketball team and I’d probably tell you he’s got a tiny head and his shoulders are too boxy. With women, it’s much narrower range- preferably within two inches of my height. I don’t mind 5’9" or 5’3", but anything outside of that just seems like too much of a height difference. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/height-as-an-attractive-factor/452109.md?page=3)